The Last OneThe daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority Muslim Clichy sous Bois, she often spends more than three hours a day on public transport to and from the city, where she feels like a tourist observing Parisian manners. She goes from unstable student to maladjusted adult, doing four years of therapy her longest relationship. As she

flies play dead

mortuary assistants and undertakers – who must escort us towards oblivion

Julian Stannard taught English and American Literature at the University of Genoa for many years

Reza Baraheni and the late Miroslav Jancic are now well known internationally for their writing in English

The latter is perhaps the most accessible poem in this

This major feature (160 pages) presents a rich selection of novel excerpts

Ted Hughes

He edited the Five Leaves collection On a Bat’s Wing

21st-century female

Andrew's University

But we’ve had her pegged

and relentless